{"id":308984,"date":"2025-11-26T22:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T22:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/308984\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T22:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T22:26:08","slug":"why-justin-lin-left-fast-x-revealed-vin-diesel-movie-had-wildly-different-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/308984\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Justin Lin Left Fast X Revealed, Vin Diesel Movie Had Wildly Different Ending"},"content":{"rendered":"

The reason why Justin Lin<\/a> left Fast X<\/a> has been revealed.<\/p>\n

Fast X is the tenth film in the main Fast & Furious<\/a> series. The movie is directed by Louis Leterrier, while the screenplay comes from Lin and Dan Mazeau.<\/p>\n

Prior to Leterrier, the movie was going to be directed by Lin, who helmed a number of other movies in The Fast and The Furious<\/a> franchise, including 2011\u2019s Fast Five. Lin, however, left the project after filming had already begun due to creative differences.<\/p>\n

Why did Justin Lin leave Fast X?<\/p>\n

Per IndieWire<\/a>, a new, unauthorized book titled Welcome to the Family documents the history of the Fast and Furious<\/a> franchise. An expert from this novel highlights what happened on the set of Fast X and why a disagreement over the film\u2019s ending led Lin to walk away.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccording to several high-level sources in the production, Lin had hit his breaking point over the steadily increasing creative tensions with [Vin] Diesel<\/a>, as well as difficulties with the star\u2019s sister\/producer, Samantha Vincent, who often acted as Diesel\u2019s emissary. A key source of discord centered around the script and its ending. While a cliffhanger was always part of the Fast X plan, several drafts of the screenplay also hinged on a jaw-dropping twist in which Dante is revealed to be the true father of Little Brian.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSome members of the film\u2019s team felt that the late-game turn was the perfect, if deeply dark, way for Dom to reckon with the concept he held most dear: family. The proud patriarch of the Fast clan would have to put his life on the line for a child who wasn\u2019t biologically his own \u2014 who was in fact the offspring of his most feared nemesis. Others, including Diesel, felt differently.<\/p>\n

\u201cUniversal was said to be extremely hands on during the entire process, and reportedly also not keen on Lin\u2019s vision for the final action set-piece, an especially over-the-top sequence that involved Dante using a giant excavator-like machine to wreak havoc\u2026After a heated closed-door meeting on Saturday, April 23, Lin reached his limit, threw up his hands, and quit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Second-unit director and cinematographer Alexander Witt further said of Lin\u2019s plan for the final action set-piece, \u201cIt\u2019s difficult to describe, but this machine eats things\u2026the bad guy goes down, gets into this machine, comes out and starts eating cars, and it\u2019s like a Transformers movie. It was totally out of context with the movie, I thought.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The reason why Justin Lin left Fast X has been revealed. Fast X is the tenth film in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,138084,136440,96403,93497,2015,61547,71038],"class_list":["post-308984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-fast-furious","tag-fast-x","tag-fast-and-furious","tag-justin-lin","tag-movie-news","tag-the-fast-and-the-furious","tag-vin-diesel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}